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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2012
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Prateep Misra, Kolkata, IN;
Soumitra Naskar, Kolkata, IN;
Sumanta Ghosh, Kolkata, IN;
Ankur Chakraborty, Kolkata, IN;
Nilanjan Roy, Kolkata, IN;
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, IN;
Abstract
A system and method for consolidating a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems in a data center comprising collecting data from a plurality of heterogeneous storage devices using data collection tools, using Data Preparation Tool for extracting and translating the collected data, populating a Data Model stored in source storage configuration unit suitable for analysis, analyzing and classifying the collected data by an analysis unit based upon a plurality of attributes, comprising of a Consolidation Advisor that uses the analyzed data and candidate Target System Configurations, Preferences & Constraints for generating optimum number, specification & configuration of the Consolidate Target State infrastructure and mappings of logical units from as-is data center storage infrastructure to the target state, and iteratively validating the same in a Validation task till the final desired consolidation and objectives are met.